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  • Film City wants to set up museum at Whistling Wood land

    Film City wants to set up museum at Whistling Wood land

    MUMBAI: Head of Film City Shyam Tagde has said that he would request the Maharashtra state government to use the recovered land of Subhash Ghai‘s Whistling Woods for the culture department‘s ambitious plan of setting up a Bollywood museum.

    “The project report of the museum is almost ready. If approved by the government, the plan on using the land could be envisaged,” he said.

    According to Tagde, the museum will act as an added attraction for tourists and help the government generate revenue.

    The Supreme Court had suggested that the government could lease out the land by inviting bids at market rates.

    The state government has already initiated procedure of recovering 12.5 acres of land from the institute after the Supreme Court ruling last Thursday.

  • State initiates move to recover Ghai’s Whistling Wood land

    State initiates move to recover Ghai’s Whistling Wood land

    MUMBAI: Following the Supreme Court’s directive, the state government has initiated the process to recover the land from Subhash Ghai where the film training institute Whistling Woods International is based.

    Film City managing director Shyam Tagde said that he sent a letter to the institute after the apex court’s verdict. “I wrote a letter to Whistling Woods on Wednesday evening asking it to return the land and spoke to its chief executive officer,” said Tagde. “The institute said it would cooperate,” he said.

    The state will initially recover 14.5 acres of 20 acres. The remaining 5.5 acres, on which the institute is built, can be retained till May 2014, the court had expressed.

    Tagde said the officials need three to four days to demarcate the land to be recovered, for which the measuring may start on Saturday.